The place of Vietnamese in Austroasiatic

Vietnamese must be classified in the Austroasiatic language family, between the Palaung-Wa group to the northwest and the Mon-Khmer group to the southwest. [This is an English translation of the article originally published as: La place du vietnamien dans les langues austroasiatiques, Bulletin de la Societe de Linguistique de Paris 49(1): 122–128 (1953).]